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Nearly 40 percent of adults ages 19 to 29 went without health insurance in 2011. But, according to analysis from The Commonwealth Fund, health reform is changing things around for this segment of the population that commonly forgoes medical coverage.

Ohio officials dropped two managed care organizations Thursday that had been tentatively awarded new Medicaid contracts and picked two other plans after weeks of legal review and further examination over how each application was scored.

The Department of Labor is distributing nearly $12 million in grants to states, which are being awarded through the second round of funding as part of the Workforce Data Quality Initiative.

Retired lawmakers would pay the same 20 percent of their health care premiums that other public retirees are being asked to pay under legislation passed by the Michigan House.

Ohio wants to take a complicated and lengthy process used to assess the Medicaid eligibility of more than 700,000 people and simplify it based on income, according to a draft of the plans released on Wednesday.

The incoming president of the American Medical Association says not to expect chaos if the U.S. Supreme Court rejects all or part of the sweeping federal health care law.